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We provide a description of three significant and original contributions made by the Zaragoza Multicriteria Decision Making Group to the field of group decision and negotiation using the analytic hierarchy process. After beginning with a short overview of the AHP and its role in group decision support, we go on to include (i) a review of the importance of consistency in group decision-making and a profile of the proposal denominated as consistency consensus matrices; this is followed by (ii) an outline of the procedure that provides collective valuations of the alternatives in a group decision problem, known as the aggregation of individual preference structures,; and, finally, there is (iii) a brief examination of the Bayesian approach to group decision-making with the analytic hierarchy process and its relationship with prioritization, consistency, and compatibility. We conclude with an explanation and discussion of the cognitive orientation and its implementation in group decision-making.
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Moreno-Jiménez, J.M., Aguarón, J., Escobar, M.T., Salvador, M. (2021). Group Decision Support Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process. In: Kilgour, D.M., Eden, C. (eds) Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49629-6_51
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